This gripping new K-drama explores financial struggles, crime, and fate, with Squid Game star Park Hae-soo playing a key role in the story.
Netflix is bringing another intense South Korean drama to audiences with Karma, a thrilling new series that delves into crime, financial desperation, and the weight of past actions. If you were hooked by the high-stakes tension of Squid Game, this is one show you won’t want to miss.
Karma and Squid Game Share a Dark Take on Financial Struggles
One of the most compelling elements of Squid Game was its exploration of economic hardship, with desperate contestants risking their lives for a chance at financial freedom. Karma taps into similar themes but takes a different approach.
The series opens with a struggling warehouse worker drowning in debt, facing overdue rent, mounting credit card bills, and the looming threat of a ruthless loan shark. Unlike Squid Game, there’s no deadly competition offering a way out—only dangerous choices that pull him deeper into a web of crime and consequence.
Crime, Fate, and the Power of Consequences
Much like Squid Game, Karma is filled with shocking twists and interconnected storylines that examine the cost of greed and the inevitability of fate. Each episode follows different characters whose lives collide in unexpected and often devastating ways.
From a fateful encounter in a church to a witness making a decision that changes everything, the show explores how one moment can set off a chain reaction, leading to either redemption—or destruction.
Squid Game Star Park Hae-soo Returns in a Key Role
One major reason Squid Game fans should tune in? Park Hae-soo, who played Cho Sang-woo (Player 218), has a pivotal role in Karma. He appears in Episode 2 as a man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time—setting up yet another gripping narrative about choices and consequences.
With its intense storytelling, deep moral dilemmas, and gripping performances, Karma promises to be Netflix’s next must-watch thriller.
All six episodes of Karma premiere on Netflix on April 4, 2025. Don’t miss this twisted, thought-provoking drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
